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Context
As part of its advocacy and awareness-raising roles, the UN/ISDR secretariat
attaches a great importance to increase media contribution to disaster risk
reduction. The UN/ISDR secretariat believes that closer working relations
between disaster managers/experts and media operatives help conveying disaster
risk reduction messages better to communities and policy/decision makers.
In this context, the UN/ISDR secretariat is initiating the process of developing
a “Global Media Network for Disaster Risk Reduction” (DRR) to
promote a new approach to disaster reporting worldwide; a new approach that
reflects and contributes to the ongoing shift of paradigm from disaster response
to disaster risk reduction.
To explore ways and means to establish, promote and sustain the proposed
Global Media Network for DRR, and to build potential members’ leadership
and ownership of the Network, the UN/ISDR secretariat will hold a “preliminary
consultative meeting” with a small group of journalists and UN communication/information
officers who have demonstrated a strong interest in and support to the initiative.
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First Consultative Meeting for Building a
“Global Media Network on Disaster Risk Reduction”
15-16 January 2007
Geneva, Switzerland |
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For further
information, please contact:
Brigitte Leoni leoni@un.org |
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